The Admiral Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 My beloved and very well cared for iPod Classic, has, after 6 faultless years, made some horrible noises this morning as the drive spins and whirrs, before giving me the 'contact Apple' message. Does anyone have any experience of this type of thing? I'm taking it into the local Apple store tomorrow, but I have a horrible feeling it could be expensive to the point of writing it off. All comforting comments welcome!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Doesn't sound good. Have you tried factory reset/restore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfisher Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 The only comforting thing I can think of is it should be possible to save a load of money by replacing the hard drive yourself (assuming that's the problem, but there are no other moving parts that will cause 'horrible noises' ). Lots of info on the web about this, e.g. http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Classic It might seem daunting, but what have you got to lose when the worst case is that you'll have to just buy a new iPod? It'll be interesting to hear what the Apple Store says though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Yeah - me too. My trusty ipod is of similar vintage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) Sadly I think the days of tiny high-capacity hard-drive music players (well, that'd be the iPod Classic) are numbered, as people move over to streaming music from that Cloud thingy. Pity, as I don't want my on-the-move listening to be dependent on a decent phone connection, and then be paying for bandwidth to listen to music I've already bought! Edited December 6, 2013 by JapanAxe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumnote Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 http://www.ipodrepairs.co.uk/ These guys are absolutely brilliant, repaired over the years 2 ipods and my daughters phone. Very quick and cheaper than a new one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyquipment Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 [quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1386359036' post='2299362'] Sadly I think the days of tiny high-capacity hard-drive music players (well, that'd be the iPod Classic) are numbered, as people move over to streaming music from that Cloud thingy. Pity, as I don't want my on-the-move listening to be dependent on a decent phone connection, and then be paying for bandwidth to listen to music I've already bought! [/quote] The battery wept as I read that our loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratman Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I suspect that 'contact Apple' really means 'this device is f***ed, please replace with an iPad immediately'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 (edited) I replaced the battery in my iPod photo. It's now 9 years old and gives a bit of gyp every now and again. I think it's due for another battery. It's easy. Maplins do a tool kit, or get one cheaper off ebay. All you have to do is source a hard drive. A great thing about these iPods is you can use them as a portable hard drive. Taking away that facility was a bad move apple! Edited December 7, 2013 by TimR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks for all the input chaps, and I had a look at the fix it yourself site, but given that they rate each job in terms of difficulty, and a new hard drive was 'very difficult', I thought better of it. Especially with my fat fingers and lack of patience with all things fiddly. I've decided to send it to the company suggested by Bumnote , and they'll actually upgrade with a new 120 mb drive, from 80mb for £79, which doesn't feel too outrageous. I'll update when I get it back. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 It's getting harder to find IDE 2.5" hard drives. I read somewhere that the iPod won't format more than 160Gb so they may well be using drives much bigger anyway. Sounds good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Mines locked up Fri night while still hooked into car. Set off my car alarm due to drain on battery while connected. Well I think that's what caused it. Was the only thing that matched up to my alarm going off and my ipod locked up ??? Ipad reset and all back to normal again. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Subscribed My IPod classic brought new in 2008 won't restore , ahhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 My favourite bit of the whole episode was talking to the American bloke on the Apple help line. I gave him the serial number so he could check the age of it etc, and his response was "Wow man, that's a seriously vintage bit of kit"! Mrs A bought it to replace a white MK 2 which was stolen at a gig - in November 2006. I have underpants older than that - which I guess are equally 'seriously vintage'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 This is interesting, I'll be keeping a close eye on this topic I've been using an 80 GB iPod Classic extensively, mostly in my car (hooked to a Parrot MK9200i carkit with an iPod connector, SD cardreader, USB in and mini-jack in) or in my company van (hooked to a iPod USB-to-mini-jack cable - I hate going from the headphone output to a line input) nowadays and I would hate it dying on me. They're still selling the current 160 GB version, but I would hate having to spend 250 euros on a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Update for interested parties. Mrs a posted it Special Delivery on Monday and I received an email at 0800 today saying it had been received and would be worked on ASAP. Just got another email confirming that the work is done and it will be collected at 5pm today for return by Royal Mail Special Delivery. Very good comms - let's see how it goes when it gets here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ead Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 As an antidote to iPods, last year I took a deep breath and dived into the smartphone world. I went for an HTC One+ or some such name. Anyway the upside is 64GB solid state memory most of which is free to use. Better than most of them at the time, but that was a whole year ago so I'm guessing things have moved on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='ead' timestamp='1386790621' post='2304667'] As an antidote to iPods, last year I took a deep breath and dived into the smartphone world. I went for an HTC One+ or some such name. Anyway the upside is 64GB solid state memory most of which is free to use. Better than most of them at the time, but that was a whole year ago so I'm guessing things have moved on... [/quote] That's still pretty huge in smartphone terms. Personally I prefer having separate smartphone and mp3 player. My 30 GB mp3 is full now, so I have been looking at the ipod classics. They're really expensive when you compare them to just putting a huge memory card in a phone though :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 Update : iPod arrived back in nuclear proof custom packaging this morning just as I was leaving for the train. Just had time to fire it up, and it did so fine - and has a test track in the memory. I'll post later when I have had a chance to reload if from my iTunes folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myke Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 My iPod died the other week. Was listening to Rollin' - Big n Rich and as soon as the song ended it wouldn't do anything. It was a bit beat up though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ead Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1386842536' post='2305144'] Personally I prefer having separate smartphone and mp3 player. My 30 GB mp3 is full now, so I have been looking at the ipod classics. They're really expensive when you compare them to just putting a huge memory card in a phone though :-( [/quote] I also have an iPod Nano mk3 for the gym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I've actually been doing some research today. I think my solution will be to buy a Sansa Clip+ and put a 64GB SDXC card in it. About £80 for a 64 GB flash based mp3 player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 So, now that I have had the chance to update the returned iPod, I can say that it works beautifully, the turnaround time was excellent - back out in a day, and the service very professional from start to finish : easy to use website, excellent updates sent regularly, and top quality packaging. One minor niggle - that it had been formatted for Mac - but not an issue really. Thoroughly impressed and an unreserved recommendation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumnote Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Im glad it worked for you, I think their service is amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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